Oyo State commissioner for education Abiodun Abdulramah says the rumour that two students of Bashorun High School, Ibadan were on Friday turned to tubers of yam by a suspected ritualist was false.
Mr Abdulramah made this clarification while addressing students, parents and guardians of the school when he visited the school on Friday.
Social media were awashed with the news of how a suspected ritualist (name witheld) turned two students of the school to tubers of yam with unused diapers.
It was reported that the suspect was caught by a local security guard around Bode Wasinmi-Bashorun axis at a location close to the school.
This, however, raised fear in the minds of residents, especially parents and guardians whose children and wards attend the school.
Abdulramah said findings from the school management showed that none of the students was reported missing.
The commissioner, however, called for calm, assuring that the security operatives would dig deeper into the incident to unravel details of what really happened.
